Philosophical foundations of contract law / edited by Gregory Klass, George Letsas and Prince Saprai.

"The chapters that constitute this volume were first presented at the inaugural Bentham House conference at University College London in 2013"--Acknowledgments (page v).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to Philosophical foundations of contract law / Gregory Klass -- I. Theoretical approaches -- The ambitions of contract as promise / Charles Fried -- Contract is not promise; contract is consent / Randy E. Barnett -- Is there a reason to keep a promise? / Joseph Raz -- Does a promise transfer a right? / David Owens -- Personal autonomy and change of mind in promise and in contract / Dori Kimel -- Promises, agreements, and contracts / James Penner -- Contract as fact and as reason / Charlie Webb -- The practice of promise and contract / Liam Murphy -- Economic foundations of contract law / Avery W. Katz -- Distributive justice and contract / Aditi Bagchi -- II. Doctrinal analyses -- An analytical framework for legal evaluation of boilerplate / Margaret Jane Radin -- Merchant law in a modern economy / Lisa Bernstein -- Good faith as contract's core value / Daniel Markovits -- The nature of vitiating factors in contract law / Mindy Chen-Wishart -- Mitigation, fairness, and contract law / George Letsas & Prince Saprai -- Remedies for breach of contract : one principle or two? / Stephen A. Smith -- Efficient breach / Gregory Klass.

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